Military exercises ended in Ukraine, during which a plane carrying an American instructor crashed
The military exercises “Clear Sky 2018,” in which representatives of 9 countries took part, ended in the Khmelnitsky region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in a message from the press service of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on its Facebook page.
“Today, October 19, at the military airfields of Starokonstantinov, in the Khmelnytsky region, and Gavryshivka, Vinnytsia region, the closing ceremony of the multinational exercises “Clear Sky 2018” took place, which took place on October 8-19 this year,” the Air Command reported. strength
According to the press service, about 2018 representatives from 700 countries took part in the Clear Sky 9 exercises, including Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Great Britain, the United States of America and Ukraine.
Members of the US Army 173rd Airborne Brigade unload equipment as troops arrive to attend a welcome ceremony at a Lithuanian air force base in Siauliai, Lithuania, Saturday, April 26, 2014. US troops arrived Saturday in Lithuania to participate in NATO maneuvers, at a time of increased tension in nearby Ukraine.(AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
The press center of the command noted that, along with the aviation component, anti-aircraft missile and radio engineering units took part in the training, which successfully carried out the tasks of identifying, tracking and conditionally destroying air targets.
On October 16, during the large-scale military exercise “Clear Sky 2018,” a Su-27 fighter plane with two pilots on board crashed. Both crew members did not survive. The Ukrainian military pilot Colonel Ivan Petrenko and the American instructor, Lieutenant Colonel pilot Seth Nehring, were killed.
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